The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-25

the main building can be econ mi
cally adapted and used for the accom-.
mediation of other officers.
Competent architects" have in
formed him that additions and chang
es can be made for about $780, 600
which will answer the purpose and
not mar the building provided the
great dome and roof are remodeled al
an additional 100000 expense and
he therefore favors this plan in pref
erence TO placing the structure al
some other point and building
anew.
Nothing could be more caustic, more
severe or more witty than this efusion
from the intelligent and wide-awake
governor of the fifth state id import
ance In the union.
That Governor Marmaduke knows
the real condition of the state capitol,
that he knows its dilapidated condit-
ion. its Inconvenience and its.inacessa-
billy in the point Of location, no one
will doubt. That he is a man of suf-
ficient intelligence to know how
requisite a creditable capitol and
capitol site is to a state ranking in
the scale of progress that Missouri
does is equally patent, that he is a
man whose love and pride in and for
his state is such as would prompt him
to further the attainment of such as
object is quite as certain. That he is
as far from parsimonious economy as
he is from lavish extravaganza. his past
life and acts are ample proof. Under
all these circumstances it would
be gross Injustice to his excellency to
regard his message as anything
but the keenest satire upon the false
notions and ideas of economy that
have so long delayed the locating and
construction of a modern capitol
which would, in a measure, at least
represent the vast Importance and
resources of Missouri and furnish
means and facilities for the transac-
ton of her legislative and state work.
This is only the more forcibly Illus
trated from the fact that Governor
Marmaduke knows that for a number
of years the city of Sedalia. possessing
superior advantages of situation,
accessibility and railway facilities to
any other point in the state, has kept
standing an offer of forty acres of the
finest ground the sun ever shone upon,
and which will readily bring $500, 600,
and an additional cash bonus of
$500. 900 toward the construction of a
capitol at this place. Let the state
add the 100000 now asked to
patch up the old structure like
crazy quilt and the additional $500, 900
for remOdling the "roof," and the
state has at the same expense that is
demanded for this patch work a
fund of 5000. 900 with which to con-
struct decent capitol in an accessa-
BILE, convenient and healthy location
and if the old building can be dispos-
ed of for 100000 they have an even
million for the purpose and this sum
is amply sufficient to construct at this
time, building fully equal to any
state capitol in the Union. Sedalia
to-day, has court house which cost
1925 900 and members of the legisla-
ture and others who have seen it
pronounce it far superior in every re-
spect 10 the present state capitol and
more valuable. Why then spend
even $4,000 repairing an old rock
cry not worth half that
sum. No one will believe
that Governor Marmaduke would
advise the expenditure of 100000 TO
dilapidated structure worth
500, 600 in an inaccessible locality
when expenditure of the same amount
will secure the construction of new
edifce worth one million in the most
desirable location in The state. Hence
his message can only be considered as
its wording indicates, a huge execu-
tive joke full of the keenest satire.